Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around the defense perimeter, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean and back to the North Sea, the quality of German resistance was spotty...
...real significance of the new offensive was that it marked the impending close of the Baltic campaign. Soon the Russians would have eight whole army groups north of the Carpathians with nothing left to attack but East Prussia and the line from that province through Warsaw to the upper Vistula-sectors which seemed long overdue for attention...
Plainly, Russia's hesitations, her wary mind and mood of suspicion were the realistic Russians' way of saying to their Allies: Face the facts. Stop talking about the Baltic States and the Polish question. If you want world security, you can have it, but you must first recognize our right to national security...
Timesman Reston put the Russian attitude in a nutshell: "Her attitude is that we should not ask her to give up the Baltic States any more than she should ask us to give Texas land back to Mexico...
...Future. As to the future of Russian literature, I heard the other night a most revealing program set forth by Vsevolod Vishnevsky, a distinguished playwright who is a naval officer and has written mostly about the Baltic Sea and the defense of Leningrad. Speaking specifically for the magazine Snamya, of which he is an editor, but inferentially for all Russian writers, he said that Russia's postwar writing will: 1) gather from partisans, soldiers, sailors, officers and workers the whole truth about this war; 2) glorify Russia's heroic traditions; 3) promote "Slavism" and see to it that...